Our friend Eva flew down for the weekend to help with gardening -- and not the easy variety! (Is there ever easy gardening?) In Virginia we have fast growing weeds -- I'm not exagerating when I say we had weeds up to our second storey windows! In addition to the weeds, we had bushes that needed major trimming, plants that needed to come out or needed transplanting, trees that had been planted too close to the house back when they were small and cute, and a lot of brush growing up through the fences around the property. Claudia and Eva went at them with chainsaws and 4x4 trucks with chains, and after three days of back-breaking work they were victorious!


Planning the next move

Posing by the beautiful fall foliage



The finished product!